GREEN POEMS

Dinah Maria Mulock CraikGreen Things Growing
O the green things growing, the green things growing,
The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.
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Dinah Maria Mulock CraikMeet Me In The Green Glen
Love, meet me in the green glen,
Beside the tall elm-tree,
Where the sweetbriar smells so sweet agen;
There come with me.
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John ClareThe Green Month
WHAT of all the colours shall I bring you for your fairing,
Fit to lay your fingers on, fine enough for you ?â??
Yellow for the ripened rye, white for ladies' wearing,
Red for briar-roses, or the skies' own blue ?
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Marjorie Lowry Christie PickthallGreen
The dawn was apple-green,
The sky was green wine held up in the sun,
The moon was a golden petal between.

David Herbert LawrenceLittle Green Buttons
The honeymoon ended a decade ago,
If he still loves her he don't say so,
So she's taking her blues to the House af Tattoos,
Getting little green buttons on her birthday suit.
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James Whitcomb RileyLilac And Gold And Green
Lilac and gold and green!
Those are the colours I love the best,
Spring's own raiment untouched and clean,
When the world is awake and yet hardly dressed,
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Wallace StevensThe Three Drinkers
Blacksmith Green had three strong sons,
With bread and beef did fill 'em,
Now John and Ned are perished and dead,
But plenty remains of William.
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Robert GravesThe Merry Month Of May
O THE month of May, the merry month of May,
So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!
O, and then did I unto my true love say,
Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer's Queen.
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William BlakeGreen And Blue
Green and blue
First-named of colours believe these two.
They first of colours by men were seen
This grass colour, tree colour,
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Lesbia HarfordAs Ireland Wore the Green
BY RIGHT of birth in southern land I send my warning forth.
I see my country ruined by the wrongs that damned the North.
And shall I stand with fireless eyes and still and silent mouth
While Mammon builds his Londons on the fair fields of the South?
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